Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/rogъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *rágas, with the mobile accent due to Illič-Svityč's law.

Noun

*rȍgъ m

1. horn

Inflection

Declension of *rȍgъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*rȍgъ	*rȍga	*rȍdzi
genitive	*rȍga	*rogù	*rògъ
dative	*rȍgu	*rogomà	*rogòmъ
accusative	*rȍgъ	*rȍga	*rȍgy
instrumental	*rȍgъmь, *rȍgomь*	*rogomà	*rogý
locative	*rȍdzě	*rogù	*rodzě̃xъ
vocative	*rože	*rȍga	*rȍdzi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *rogozъ (“reed, rush”)
• *rogačь (“horned animal, stag”)
• *rogatъ (“horned”)
• *rožьcь (“small horn”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рогъ (rogŭ)
    • Old Belarusian: рогъ (roh)
      • Belarusian: рог (roh)
    • Russian: рог (rog)
    • Ukrainian: ріг (rih)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: рогъ (rogŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱃⱁⰳⱏ (rogŭ)

  • Bulgarian: рог (rog)
  • Macedonian: рог (rog)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ро̑г

    Latin script: rȏg

    • Chakavian (Novi): rȏg
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): rᵘȏh
    • Chakavian (Vrgada): rȏg
  • Slovene: rọ̑g (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: roh
    • Czech: roh
  • Kashubian: róg
  • Polabian: rüg
  • Polish: róg
  • Silesian: rōg
  • Slovak: roh
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: rog
    • Upper Sorbian: róh

• → Yiddish: ראָג (rog), ראָגל (rogl)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рог”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress